European international financial organizations are investors in the real sector of Ukraine’s economy

The article highlights the historical aspects of Ukraine's cooperation with two international financial institutions, which provide Ukraine with significant credit resources: the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank. The structure of these institutions, the purpose of their work, means and methods of achieving the goals defined in the statutory documents were considered. The cooperation of Ukraine with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank on the implementation of investment projects in the public and private sectors was studied, the peculiarities of the project implementation were analysed and the factors that impact low disbursement were investigated. Attention is drawn to the importance of using investments from international financial organizations in full and the importance of further close cooperation with institutions that provide credit resources to Ukraine in periods when the state does not actively cooperate with the IMF. Generalised suggestions for improving Ukraine's cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank were prepared, separately for each bank, the steps that need to be taken to increase the disbursement of loans for investment projects implemented in Ukraine with international financial organizations were listed.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is not a regional development bank in the way that we might traditionally think of such institutions. This chapter sets out to explore what the implications of this might be in the context of two of the major themes that structure this edited volume: market promotion and regional integration. The chapter does this by outlining briefly the significance of the historical context of the constitutive moment when the EBRD was established. The chapter then utilizes these broad heuristics to analyse the social and intellectual context of transition amid the four policy shifts in the EBRD at various critical historical junctures: (1) Initial market construction; (2) institutional shock therapy; (3) the promotion of neoliberal competitiveness; and then (4) post-crisis re-invigoration; before offering some reflections on the EBRD as regional development bank within the wider framing of the principal agent problem.

Assessing Physical Climate Risks for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Power Generation Project Investment Portfolio

This paper introduces a new method to quantify physical climate risks for power generation projects at the portfolio level. Co-developed by WRI and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the approach is designed to be flexible enough to work with portfolios with different levels of data availability, leverage the latest science in climate and hydrology, and use machine-learning techniques such as recurrent neural networks.

FEATURES OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT ACCORDING TO THE EUROPEAN BANK’S FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS

The article discusses the features and principles of the methodology for environmental impact assessment with the requirements of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Belarus. A comparative description of the impact assessment in the Republic and in accordance with the requirements of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is given.

Evolution of the Conception of the Special Pledge in Bulgaria

The article presents the development of the special pledge in Bulgaria and the influence the Model law on secured transactions (MLST) drafted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has in forming the basis of the national legislation regarding the pledge without transfer of pledged property. The article presents the general principles of the Law on Special Pledges and it highlights on the individual amendments of texts after the significant changes in the law adopted in 2016.